Memorial Day Valery Kharlamov

Valeri Kharlamov was born on 14 January 1948 in Moscow. His father was a mechanic a test at the Moscow plant "Kommunar". His mother was a Spaniard who arrived in the USSR in the 1930s. Since childhood Valery fond of football and hockey. In 1962, he became involved in the sport school of CSKA, and 7 years later, when he was 21 years old, joined the main hockey team of the club. From that time until 1981, Valery Kharlamov was considered the fastest and most technically striker in the world. He was distinguished responsiveness and innovative approaches. Valery Kharlamov one of the three leading players in the Soviet national team. During his 15-year career Kharlamov played 438 games for CSKA, scoring 293 goals. At the World Championships and the Olympic Games it was played 123 matches and scored 89 goals. His goals enthralled fans were amazing and rivals. In 1976, after suffering a car accident Kharlamov advised to refrain from exercising, but he did not listen to the doctors and six months later was back on the ice. August 27, 1981, Valery Kharlamov and his wife died in a car crash near Solnechnogorsk in the Moscow region. Their son Alexander also became a hockey player. In the national team of Russia Valery Kharlamov forever secured his number - 17. In 2008, Valery Kharlamov was named among the top six players in the entire 100-year history of world hockey.

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